Lin Daiyu is an important figure in China's classic novel A Dream of Red Mansions, and also one of the heroines in the book. Lin Daiyu is Jia Baoyu's cousin and a lady of the Jia family. Her fate is tragic. She lost her mother in her early years, and her father moved away from home and was forced to live a fixed life in Jiafu. She has a high literary accomplishment and emotional accomplishment, especially good at poetry and painting.

Lin Daiyu is a very sensitive and emotional person, full of contradictions and puzzles about her feelings and life. In the emotional entanglement between Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai, she showed very complicated and profound feelings. She and Jia Baoyu have wonderful feelings, but they can't be together for various complicated reasons. At the end of the book, she died because she was too haggard and became one of the saddest and greatest female images in people's hearts.

The image of Lin Daiyu occupies a very important position in China culture and is regarded by many as the representative of female spirit. Her image is also widely celebrated and becomes a classic image in China culture.